> > This is a computer arithmetic question.>> See Knuth Vol 2.>> This book ought to be required of every CS student.

Are you refering to "The Art of Computer Programming" ?Well, he did a great job with it. Yes, indeed. He wrote great booksbut made it worst when using MIX for showing the algorithms.Oh, I just need to learn a new programming language just to understandthe examples. Really, it's like teaching someone Ada just to show him tocreate operators. Of the world codes in Ada, sure. The next thing wouldbe Lisp just for fun. It's not that no one uses these languages, but todays

languages aren't Ada, Lisp or MIX - no. They carry names such asC, C++ or Java. Also, would he do it in C, there would be more peopleunderstanding him.Don't you agree ?